See the first in a series of artist interpretations of materials at the Archives, featuring artist Terence Gower's innovative site-specific exhibition and installation project.

Dolls from Native cultures throughout the Western Hemisphere are on view.

Majestic 6th-century Chinese Buddhist sculpture is combined with 21st-century 3D-imaging technology in this exploration of one of the most important groups of Buddhist devotional sites in early medieval China.

This exhibition is the first survey of artworks in the United States by postwar German painter Blinky Palermo.

This exhibition explores the historical significance of Van Cleef & Arpels's contributions to jewelry design in the 20th century.

Tangible Earth, the world's first interactive digital globe, shows dynamic changes in the world using interactive technology.

This exhibition shows how seasonal associations permeate Japanese art and culture.

Examples of tea utensils that embody seasonal changes are on view.

This exhibition presents 32 color and black-and-white photographs from the museum's permanent collection made during the past three decades by nine established and emerging artists: Tina Barney, Virginia Beahan, Christopher Dawson, Muriel Hasbun, Martina Lopez, Elaine O'Neil, Larry Sultan, Margaret Strickland, and Carrie Will.

Two artists create site-specific works in response to each other's style and artworks.

This year's orchid exhibition showcases a variety of exotic live orchids that testify to the Chinese love for this enchanting plant.

Photographs document the Laguna Pueblo tradition of Grab Day, a community-wide prayer of abundance, thanks, and renewal.

The orchid -- a symbol of friendship, loyalty, and patriotism -- is the focus of the 20 Chinese paintings on view.

See 28 early drawings and lithographs by Navajo artist  R.C. Gorman (1931-2005) that foreshadow the monumental women and Indian madonnas that brought the artist international acclaim.

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's presidential inauguration, the museum displays five portraits of Kennedy.

On view are nine photographs of the Kennedys taken by Richard Avedon for Harpers Bazaar.

Features a selection of Japanese screens from the nearly 200 screens held by the Freer Gallery.

The moods evoked in seasonal Chinese landscapes are explored.

Steinway's diary -- with the first entry beginning just eight days after the first shots of the Civil War were fired -- spans 36 years of one of the most dynamic periods in American history.

The portrait of Stephen Colbert (b. 1964, Washington, D.C.), the mock pundit from the Comedy Central show The Colbert Report, is back on view.